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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I mean, there are ways to go and work there instead.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Don't forget your copious amounts of insect repellent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

You won't need that anymore as insects have been in a steady decline

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just find any thing that smells like mint or citrus and you'll be fine.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I live in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and spend a lot of time in the summer camping in and around our national parks (Yellowstone, Grand Teton, etc.). Often, the only thing that will do the trick is taking a bath in deet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Deetz nutz. Gottem.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Looks like glacier national Park

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (6 children)

yes, instead of scrounging for berries when you're 75 and dying of an infected wound from when you fell over on that mountain

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Oh boi 🤦‍♂️

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I'm very anti-work, but one night in that environment with no shelter and food and I'd be dreaming of an office space. That being said, there is definitely a better world somewhere between working 50-80hours a week and sleeping outside with no shelter or food.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're comparing what even our ancestors before sapiens had against the modern world. How about Babylon? Or the native Americans that so many "civilized" Americans ran off into the woods to join. Survival of the fittest was absolutely a thing sure, but at the same time, look at people's lives now, look at healthy people's lives in Brazil's favella, Gaza, Sudan, war zone or not. I live in the wonderful capital of Scotland yet there are people on the edges who have lives worse than a 3000bc person.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah that's kinda my point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why wouldn't you have shelter or food? Emergency shelter takes an hour to build if you've never done that before and as long as you can tie a knot and find both woods and stone you can have a reasonably durable shelter in a week.

Food is even easier as long as you did literally any outdoors skills as a kid. While the picture suggests a landscape a bit north and a bit alpine, fish, berries, root vegetables and/or tree nuts will be available to you all year.

Take a survival and foraging course. A couple weekends of education will save your life when capitalism inevitably collapses.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have taken a foraging course! My wife and I actually forage a small amount. But I've never taken a survival course. I'll just freeze to death and I'm ok with that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You should, at least one working with primitive shelters. Once you understand how easy it is and the relatively low maintenance requirements you'll start getting into Bushcraft, and from there you'll want land just to make little log-based moss covered shelters that can last for decades.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I'd love to do that someday. Maybe when my daughter is old enough to learn as well.

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